I have two projects in Google App Engine, i have my own domains from which i want to access them. I've added the custom domains to each project but found out the dns records that Google App Engine provides are exactly same, thus both my domains which are two different domains( Eg: abc.com, xyz.com ) now connect to the same website.
Technically all GAE apps are mapped from the DNS perspective to the same ingress infrastructure via either appspot.com or, for custom domains, ghs.googlehosted.com, so it is expected for their IP addresses to fall into a very small range (4 addresses presently).
Serving a particular GAE app is done by extracting the app id from the appspot. com subdomain or from the configured custom domain mapping.
If you unexpectedly see a different app and you want help debugging you need to provide details about your app's environment and configuration.
I am trying to figure out whether to use Google App Engine or other available PaaS. During my research, I am trying to figure out if a particular website using google app engine or not - Is there any known method to figure this out ?
Sorry for the basic question, but appreciate any help. Thanks.
You can recognize a GAE-based site based on the server's domain:
*.appspot.com - default domain of standard GAE apps
*.appspot-preview.com - default domain of newer flex GAE apps
custom domains mapped to ghs.google.com or ghs.googlehosted.com. See step 5 in the Adding a custom domain for your application procedure and how does ghs.google.com work?. Note that I'm unsure if this doesn't also apply to other Google products, not only to GAE.
There may be other such domains as well.
You can also check the Server header in the responses coming from the site. From Headers added or replaced:
Server
Set to Google Frontend. The development server sets this to
Development/x, where x is the version number.
ping the domain and if you have something with ghs.googlehosted.com:
PING ghs.googlehosted.com (216.58.213.147): 56 data bytes
It's a GAE application. You can also check the headers in requests from your browser's dev tools.
Does anyone know if there is a way to map more than 20 domains to a Google App Engine application?
Currently, I'm hitting a limit of 20 domain aliases in my Google Apps account and thus am unable to map more domains.
I confirmed with Google customer service that this is simply not possible. I had to move to Heroku because of this limitation, which is underwhelming.
Overview of problem. Site was running on a Free version of Google Apps for over a year as a simple web page. We started developing it we deleted the old Google Apps and and migrated it to our primary App Engine account to avoid billing issues of two+ accounts. We couldn't get App Engine to recognize the Custom Domain even though it was in the Domains tab of our Google Apps Account. In searching I found Google limits using domains on App Engine (http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182081 scroll down to App Engine) I had to recreate a separate Google Apps account to verify ownership of the domain. Site is up and operational now outside of SSL. The issue is that when I go to https://admin.google.com/CPanelHome#DomainSettings/subtab=domains and type the app id to enable SSL on the domain Apps account it routes me to create an App Engine app instead of to billing. Because the app is running on the primary App Engine account not the Domain account.
It seems someone must have ran across this and solved it. How do I enable my primary Google Apps account to verify ownership of the domains and allow App Engine to use it? I have a lot of domains that will be hosted on App Engine and a lot of integration between the sites that would really need to be all under a single account to facilitate.
I noticed in searching that Google is offering a free year of Google Apps for customers using App Engine to host a application. Is Google expecting every domain to have a full Google Apps account and host on separate App Engine accounts? If so that would really limit our ability to use App Engine.
After waiting for three days for an answer I am moving on. I believe I tried every way imaginable to accomplish getting multiple domains on a primary Google Apps account to be verified and have SSL enabled. I went so far as to try it with a domain that has never had any Google services. Just in case there were some settings that were causing issues from left over configuration.
So the resolution of this at this time is Google expects you to have a full Google Apps account per domain to enable SSL, or Google App Engine on it. I believe they will be removing the Free Google App Account in the near future. This effectively means that hosting on App Engine will get expensive as a Google App Account is $50/year, and if you use a CloudSQL instance it will be at minimum $9/mo. That is on top of the bandwidth and usage fees.
I have already deactivated billing and disabled the apps on those accounts and have moved them over to a VPS. This is the third year I have spent a lot of time trying to get basic sites using SSL established on Google. While this year it is possible to do it, in the end you pay an arm and a leg for it.
I love Google and really want App Engine to be viable. But I just don't think they will pull it together. All my friends have went with Azure, RackSpace, and the granddaddy Amazon. It really makes me sad that Google is so far from viable and even worse that Azure just works.
If anyone at Google wishes to contact me feel free to do so. If there is something I missed feel free to open this and give directions on how to host multiple domains on a single App Engine / Apps account with SSL. I would greatly appreciate it.
From this question I learned that Google App Engine does not currently support SSL on "custom domains" (at least not as of June 2010, when that question was asked).
Does this mean if I want to host my GAE app on www.mydomain.com, I cannot use SSL?
A few days ago it comes into tests.
Priority:
It is at the top of the Features on Deck list.
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html
Simultaneous serving:
A custom domain hosted app such as http://www.mydomain.com can still be accessed on its ssl appspot subdomain such as https://yourapp.appspot.com
Issue:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/844dc97fbfc57bab/0c8651f00072f9ea?lnk=gst&q=ssl#0c8651f00072f9ea
(As the others on here have said) SSL is not currently supported for your own domain. It is aparently on it's way but has been for some time, I believe it is currently only available to a select few Google App Engine for Business customers.
The temporary solution which many (myself included) are using is to setup a reverse proxy from another hosting service (Amazon EC2 in my case) to route SSL traffic.
If your app suits the situation where your URLs are not of importance, you could setup an SSL site somewhere and access your https://xxx.appspot.com version from within an iframe
Either way until GAE offically supports SSL via your Google Apps domains, you will need an external service to workaround it.
Custom SSL is available for App Engine since 27 Jun 2012.
You can setup it from your domain's control panel:
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl
All secure traffic with Google App Engine must be served from your appspot.com domain (https://your-app-id.appspot.com). If you are serving your app off of a Google Apps domain, you must direct all secure traffic through your app's appspot domain.
This is what is written in google app engine documentation. That means. SSL is supported on appspot.com domain
You can get SSL to work on your custom domain hosted on AppEngine, however you need to run a reverse proxy that can modify the host header to do so. If you want to setup a reverse proxy yourself, you can do so following these instructions:
http://radomirml.com/2011/01/30/reverse-proxy-for-gae-application-using-nginx-and-ssl
Alternatively, you can use a reverse proxy service like CloudFlare. The process of getting SSL to work with an appspot.com domain is documented on the CloudFlare Blog:
http://blog.cloudflare.com/ssl-on-custom-domains-for-appengine-and-other
You can use wwwizer.com - it is a reverse proxy service with SSL.
You get an individual IP and it is showing your app both on http and https ports. It is cheaper and easier than hosting the whole server yourself.
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Here's a HOWTO I wrote up explaining how to do SSL on your custom domain using CloudFlare:
http://blorn.com/post/20185054195/ssl-for-your-domain-on-google-app-engine
Since Sdk 1.7.0, released at Google I/O, developers can serve their applications via HTTPS on custom domains using both SNI (Server Name Indication) and VIP (Virtual Ip) based SSL.